Poet, writer and translator , whose poetry appeared in English in the first Anthology of translated Arabic poetry (1987, Columbia University press), and in Iraqi Poetry Today (2003, King’s college, London). He is also featured in the Dictionary of Contemporary Arabic Authors published in 1985, in Arabic and German. One of his last projects was working with the ‘motion group’ on A Soldier’s Tale which showed at the Old Vic Theatre in London. He has published several collections including The Bags (1975), Tapping on the Doors of Childhood (1978), Epitaph (1981), Bicagy's Rose (1983), Promenade of Sadness (1991), Sarabad (1997), Ticking Unreachable from Light (1998), Kifa Nabki (2002, which translated means Halt-let us weep), The Insane do not Tire (short story collection, 2004), Zihariat (2005), The Feast of the Funeral (2007), The Moroccan Divan (2008), Selected Poems (2009) and The Poet outside the Text (2007) (an Interview with Abdulkareem Kasid by Abdul Karder Al Jamoosi). we'll highlight the poet's work in translation on another occasion.